After featuring it in yesterday’s Daily Digest, GerryT felt compelled to work on Legacy this week and puts Monastery Mentor through its paces in the Gitaxian Probe/Cabal Therapy/Brainstorm format to see how crazy it really is.
Ari Lax loves Storm something fierce, and Magic Origins has quite a present waiting inside for him. He also analyzes the rest of the set too with a critical eye – what will win him his second Pro Tour trophy?
Mark has been hearing a lot of echoes going around the echo chamber, all of them saying Magic Origins stinks and the cards are bad. But what if the only thing that’s bad is the lack of thought going into forming that firmly-held opinion?
With some key changes to Organized Play announced as of Pro Tour Magic Origins, Adrian discusses the change that makes his personal style of play potentially against the rules.
Collected Company is tearing it up in Modern, and the more interesting the Company deck, the more GerryT likes it! Today’s deck comes from the Top Eight of Grand Prix Singapore, and it’s a sweet one!
Parley is a powerful mechanic in Commander, and strapping that ability to your Commander will drastically shift the flow of the game as card advantage goes all around the table. Jess Stirba works on one of her favorite Commaners: Selvala, Explorer Returned!
We’re just a few days away from (probably) having the full Magic Origins spoiler, but as of today’s update we know all but one Mythic and all but twenty Rares – check out Ben’s analysis of everything we learned over this weekend!
With Magic Origins taking great effort to hearken back to Magic’s oldest days with a few of its cards, Carsten just has to explore how Eternal formats might use these newest analogues to broken restricted Vintage cards.
Todd and BBD begin battling with Magic Origins, showcasing the power of a few new cards as they update key archetypes from the last Standard format in search of the new best deck!
While all five of the flip-Planeswalkers from Magic Origins are exciting, Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin is particularly intrigued by the deeper potential to be found in Nissa, Vastwood Seer.
Magic Origins is a deckbuilder’s cornucopia, and Anthony Lowry takes a meander through the set spoiled so far in order to find homes for some of the cards that interest him the most.
Monastery Mentor has been breaking out all across Modern in recent experiments, and it’s even found a home in Vintage as a powerful kill card. In today’s Daily Digest, Gerry looks at a deck trying to find it a good home in Legacy, where its spell-triggered token generation is particularly good with Cabal Therapy.
In his last article before a brief hiatus to go get married, Chas Andres takes an in-depth look at what we know about Magic Origins so far and what can be expected of its rares and mythics.
Following up on Jess Stirba’s most recent column for Dear Azami, Abe takes her reader’s submission and works on a rebuild of his own for Rakdos, Lord of Riots!
Goblin Piledriver! We get three months of Piledriver + Rabblemaster in Standard, and forever in Modern. That shakes things up considerably for Magic Origins, don’t you think?
